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What level are you on? 
1. Top level Manager
2. Middle level Manager
3. Frontline Manager
4. Team Leader

1.Top level managers often referred to as Strategic Managers, focus on the survival, growth, and overall effectiveness of the organization. Top level managers are concerned with the organization as a whole and also with the interaction between the organization and environment. It requires working with outside individuals and organizations.

Chief Executive Officers (CEO) is one type of top level manager in large corporations. The individual is the primary Strategic Manager of the firm and has authority over everyone else.

Others include Chief Operating Officer (COO), company presidents, vice presidents, and members of the top management team.

With new technology it creates the position of Chief Information Officer(CIO). New Top manager Chief Ethics Officer (CEO).

2. Middle level managers are located in the organization’s hierarchy below top level management and above the frontline managers and team leaders. Sometimes called Tactical Managers, they are responsible for translating the general goals and plans developed by Strategic Managers into more specific objectives and activities.

The role of the Middle Manager is a Administrative Controller who bridges the gap between Higher and Lower Levels. Today Middle Level Managers break corporate objectives down into business unit target; Put together separate business unit plans from the units below them for higher level firm review; serve as nerve centers of internal communication, interpreting and broadcasting top management’s priorities downward and channeling and translating informant from the front line upward.

3. Frontline Mangers, or operational Managers, are lower level managers who execute the operations of the organization. Who have titles such as Supervisor or Sales Manager. They are directly involved with Nonmanagement employees, implementing specific plans developed with middle manager. Frontline Managers are the link between management and Nonmanagement personnel.

Frontline Managers were directed and controlled from above making sure operations are implemented to support the company's strategy. In leading Companies Frontline Managers are called upon to be Innovative and entrepreneurial, managing for growth and new business development.

Newer, Younger mangers are crucial to creating and sustaining quality, innovation, and other drivers of financial performance. In out standing Firms, talented frontline managers are not only allowed to initiate new activities but are expected to do so by their top and middle level managers.

4. Team Leaders, engages in a variety of behaviors to achieve team effectiveness.
While team leaders and frontline managers tend to be younger managers with
entrepreneurial skills, frontline managers have direct managerial control over
their nonmanagerial employees. Frontline managers may be responsible for 
Hiring, training, scheduling, compensating, appraising, and if necessary, firing 
Employees in order to achieve their goals and create new growth objectives for
The business.

In comparison, Team Leaders are more like project facilitators or coaches. 
Their responsibilities include Organizing the team and Establishing its purpose, 
Finding resources to iments that block the team’s progress, and developing
team members’ Skills and abilities’.

Creates and Supports Positive Social Climate-Challenges Team, Provides Feedback, 
and Encourages the team to be self sufficient. Represent the teams interest,
serves as a Spokesman and champion. Achieve Projects, assignments and 
more challenging than a Frontline Manager.
By: Trina D